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- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Triumph of the Automobile: and Its Incipient Decline
- 2 From Revolution to Revolution: a Changing Automotive Industry
- 3 The Vehicle Manufacturers: a Controlling Global Semi-oligarchy
- 4 A Highly Disciplined Global Partnership: the Components Suppliers
- 5 Tense Relationships: the Automotive Industry and Government
- 6 Enthusiastic Adopters: Growth and Change in the Australian Car Market
- 7 The End of a Life cycle the Rise and Fall of the Australian Light Vehicle Industry
- 8 Distant Children: Australian Vehicle Manufacturers and Their Foreign Parents
- 9 The Australian Component Suppliers: Doomed by being so Sub-scale
- 10 From Consistency to Contradiction: Australian Government Automotive Policy
- 11 Government Support Policy and Sectoral Analysis: Lessons Learned
- Index
4 - A Highly Disciplined Global Partnership: the Components Suppliers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2019
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Triumph of the Automobile: and Its Incipient Decline
- 2 From Revolution to Revolution: a Changing Automotive Industry
- 3 The Vehicle Manufacturers: a Controlling Global Semi-oligarchy
- 4 A Highly Disciplined Global Partnership: the Components Suppliers
- 5 Tense Relationships: the Automotive Industry and Government
- 6 Enthusiastic Adopters: Growth and Change in the Australian Car Market
- 7 The End of a Life cycle the Rise and Fall of the Australian Light Vehicle Industry
- 8 Distant Children: Australian Vehicle Manufacturers and Their Foreign Parents
- 9 The Australian Component Suppliers: Doomed by being so Sub-scale
- 10 From Consistency to Contradiction: Australian Government Automotive Policy
- 11 Government Support Policy and Sectoral Analysis: Lessons Learned
- Index
Summary
Discusses the influence of national governments and their long-standing role in regulating the industry, the conflicts that have arisen around safety and environmental protection. Also addresses the role of the industry in national economies, how governments have encouraged the development of national automotive sectors, the means they used to do so and the consequences for the industry. Describes the roles that different countries have been able to play within this global industry.
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- National Policy, Global GiantsHow Australia Built and Lost its Automotive Industry, pp. 101 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020